From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-07-17T22:37:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Downloadable version of "Programming Ruby"?

ravindr@ecf.toronto.edu (Ravindran  Vikram) writes:

> I was wondering where I could find a downloadable version of the book
> "Programming Ruby." The links to the downloadable versions at the page 
> http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads/book.html seem to
> be broken. Is this due to some accident, or have the links been broken
> intentionally, perhaps to encourage people to buy the book (which is
> completely understandable, as it's obvious that a _lot_ of work went into
> creating it.) Any information on this matter would be appreciated.

No, it's not to convince folks to buy the book (after all, we chose to
release the content under an open license in the first place
;). Someone recently broke the license on a downloaded copy, so I
removed the download while I thought about the situation.

I've added the link back now. The language reference chapter is
currently truncated, as the way Ruby handles class variables has
changed since 1.6.1, and that means that one of the code examples now
fails. I'll look at this when I get a chance.


Dave